The Pentax K20D with DA* 55/1.4 SDM lens.

> But the Pentax lens is already too expensive, in my > humble opinion, at $800, Having been shooting with a DA*55/1.4 for just over four years, I humbly disagree. Lightroom stats show that 25% of all of my shots were taken with it. It's worth every penny. > and—most importantly of all—it is just too, > too blisteringly sharp for portraits. Easily fixed in a few seconds with a good portrait plugin like Imagenomics Portraiture. I'd rather have a sharp, general purpose lens and have to flatter portraits in software than do it optically with an expensive specific-purpose lens that's useless for most everything else.

I haven't so much lately but for several years I haunted classic car meets and took a lot of car detail shots. Here are a couple of my better efforts. The first one was hung in a curated Chicago exhibition (Scharpenberg Gallery) of Pentax Discuss Mail List folks in 2010.